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enSophomoric Display on ABC's 'The View'http://www.glaad.org/2010/06/17/sophomoric-display-on-abcs-the-view
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-View.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-22268" title="The View" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-View.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="179" /></a>This morning on <a href="http://abc.go.com/watch/the-view/167365" target="_blank">ABC's <em>The View,</em> </a>MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of "Morning Joe," sat in as a guest host, joining regulars Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Fox Sports Radio commentator Stephen A. Smith was also a guest.</p>
<p>Scarborough directed a question to Sherri Shepherd who is from Los Angeles, concerning recent comments by actress Cameron Diaz.</p>
<p><strong>Scarborough:</strong> "Help me understand how things work in Los Angeles. Cameron Diaz comes out, the movie star, and says: 'Just because you have sex with another woman doesn't mean you're a lesbian.' Can you explain that for those of us who live on the East Coast?"</p>
<p>Some of the hosts, particularly Shepherd, Scarborough and Smith went on to make sweeping conclusions that same-sex relationships between women are more acceptable than same-sex relationships between men. And Shepherd insinuated that women who have had relationships with other women might have been going through a phase but she said men who have been with men are definitely gay.</p>
<p>Here are some excerpts from the exchange:</p>
<p><strong>Shepherd: </strong> "I can see what Cameron was talking about because I think you can more accept a woman maybe going through a phase with another woman and then getting with a man, as opposed to if a man came and said, 'You know what, I used to, during my college days, I had sex with a man.' I'm going, 'You're gay. You're gay.'"</p>
<p><strong>Joy Behar:</strong> "It is not a phase. Ok! It is not a phase."</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> "If you are somebody that's attracted to the same gender, you are what you are."</p>
<p><strong>Hasselbeck:</strong> "Ok, you said if a guy had sex with a guy, you would think that he's gay. As a man, ok if you see a woman had had sex with another woman, would you then say, 'Ok you're a lesbian, not for me?' Or would you still.. is there like still attraction there?"</p>
<p><strong>Scarborough:</strong> "She's obviously never been told the truth from her husband. Ask your husband that question tonight."</p>
<p><strong>Shepherd:</strong> "A man would get with a woman that has had a relationship with another woman. But would a woman get with a man who says he's been with another man? I think it would be highly doubtful because we'd go, 'You're gay.'"</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> "The bottom line is, we're not as appalled by the thought of two women together as we are about two men being together."</p>
<p>To her credit Joy Behar stressed that being a lesbian is not a phase, but not one of the TV personalities discussed the possibility of bisexuality. Unfortunately it's all too common for mainstream media to ignore bisexuality. And this group of commentators not only ignored it they furthered the offensive notion that it's somehow more acceptable for two women to be together than two men.</p>
<p>GLAAD will be reaching out to producers at "The View" and to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to voice our concerns about this segment and offer advice about how to have an informed discussion about this topic in the future without perpetuating myths and stirring up sensationalism.</p>
<p>We also encourge you to voice your concerns. <a href="http://theview.abc.go.com/contact_us" target="_blank">You can contact The View here</a>. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28437928/" target="_blank">You can contact Joe Scarborough here</a>.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 17, 2010</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/joe-scarborough">Joe Scarborough</a>, </li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:18:12 +0000glaad33000 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2010/06/17/sophomoric-display-on-abcs-the-view#commentsChanging Tactics, Changing Timeshttp://www.glaad.org/2008/08/07/changing-tactics-changing-times
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://www.afterelton.com/"><img class="alignleft" title="AfterElton.com" src="http://www.afterelton.com/themes/afterelton/img/logo-blue.png" alt="" width="228" height="98" /></a><a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C0"><em>AfterElton</em> tapped</a> pundits, journalists politicians, bloggers and GLAAD for our take on how gay issues may be used in the media during election 2008 and whether tactics from the past would resonate in the cultural climate of today. <a href="http://www.365gay.com/features/080608-mainstream-pundits/">Canvassing the opinions</a> of MSNBC commentators Keith Olberman and Joe Scarborough, <em>Hardball </em>Host Chris Matthews and CNN correspondents Suzanne Malveaux and John King, <em>AfterElton</em>contributing writer Christie Keith heard the overwhelming opinion that using gay issues as a wedge was a no go strategy in our modern and somewhat more enlightened era.</p>
<p>CNN’s Malveaux <a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C1">said</a>, “It's not just the times that have changed, but that people's concerns are different in 2008 than in previous years. The cultural issues that resonated in previous elections aren't necessarily being emphasized this time around. It's more pocketbook issues, it's more gas prices, it's more the homeowners' crisis, the mortgage crisis."</p>
<p><em>AmericaBlog</em>’s John Aravosis also <a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C2">weighed in</a>. "Society has changed since 2000. We’ve gone from <em>Will &amp; Grace </em>being historic to <em>Will &amp; Grace </em>being reruns. I’m serious. This is eight years later. You can’t do the same anti-gay stuff you did eight years ago. You just can’t. So it's got to be a finer dance."</p>
<p>Even Karl Rove, known as the architect of exploiting gay issues in the 2004 presidential re-election of George W. Bush, <a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C2">lent his voice to this story</a> but would not acknowledge the role he played in that exploitation.</p>
<blockquote><p>"I think it entered into force in the 2004 race simply because it was not introduced by the political actors themselves. Neither the Bush nor the Kerry campaigns brought the issue forward. It was brought forward by a Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts. It sort of exploded on the scene and got a life of its own."</p></blockquote>
<p>Openly gay powerhouse politician, Massachusetts’s Congressman, Barney Frank (D-Mass) had an <a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C3">interesting take</a> on what Rove left out of his remarks.</p>
<blockquote><p>"I think what he’s telling you now reflects the fact that he and the President and their political people tried very hard to whip up anti-gay marriage sentiment in 2005 and 2006 by forcing several votes on the Constitutional amendment, and it blew up in their face. What Rove is telling you is probably true now, but he forgot to add that he’s very disappointed because he tried very hard to exploit it for the 2006 election and it had no impact…. We passed an anti-discrimination bill by a large majority. We passed the hate crimes bill…. I think the air is substantially out of this balloon."</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C2">I chimed in</a> to explain that while we aren’t seeing an overwhelming amount of overt anti-gay overtones in the media discourse what we are seeing is an attempt to use coded language (like so-called “family values”) to target anti-gay voters – just as Senator McCain tried to do in an interview with George Stephanopoulos. Throughout this election season GLAAD will keep a close eye on these kinds of attempts and <a href="http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/8/politics?page=0%2C4">urge journalists</a> to push past the rhetoric and buzz phrases to get at the heart of the matter and show Americans what’s really behind the words.</p>
<p><em>Cindi Creager is Director of National News.</em><br /></p><div align="left">
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 7, 2008</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/joe-scarborough">Joe Scarborough</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/john-aravosis">John Aravosis</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/john-king">John King</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/karl-rove">Karl Rove</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/keith-olberman">Keith Olberman</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/lgbt-visibility">LGBT visibility</a>, </li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:14:17 +0000glaad30939 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2008/08/07/changing-tactics-changing-times#comments